Riihimäki Perhospuisto park won the Green Flag Award for the third time

Finland has been awarding well-maintained and managed green areas with the Green Flag Award for several years. Today, 14 August 2025, 24 green areas that have won the Green Flag Award were announced at the Lepaa exhibition – some of them already familiar winners and three completely new sites.

Riihimäki Perhospuisto park has renewed its logo, like many other parks in Finland. For the first time, the Old and New Cemetery in Vaasa, the Kulosaari Cemetery in Helsinki and the Pirkkala Cemetery won the Green Flag Award.

The charm and diversity of the butterfly park impressed the jury

Perhospuisto park, which participated in the application process for the third time, convinced the judges with its charm and versatility. According to the judges, the Perhospuisto park is a very delightful gem in the middle of a quiet residential area. Despite its small size, the park attracts visitors in a variety of ways: a pleasant playground for children with their guardians, a playing field and exercise equipment for athletes, and a picnic table for resting. The diverse, dynamic plantings of perennial and seasonal plants inspire you to get to know the species. The natural meadow area also contains plants that you want to explore more closely, such as valerian and sedge.

The Perhospuisto park is located north of Riihimäki in the Juppala district. The park has been planted with a variety of food plants for butterflies and there are information signs about butterflies and a butterfly poetry trail in the area. The Perhospuisto park was renovated in 2020–21.

The number of green areas that won the badge increased again from the previous year. The number is now the largest in Finland's Green Flag Award history.

 

The Green Flag Award is an internationally significant recognition

The Green Flag Award is an award system recognizing the quality of the maintenance and management of green areas, which is managed internationally by the British environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy, and in Finland by the Finnish Environment Association.

High-quality Green Flag Award sites take into account the users, the environment and the operational strategy of the area as a whole. Green areas that have won the Finnish Green Flag Award are part of an international network of over 2 green areas in 400 different countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Turkey, Belgium, Spain and the United States.

The Green Flag Award system is the only one of its kind in the whole world, where a trained jury evaluates the operation of the green area both in writing with the help of a maintenance and management plan and on site visits. Every year, each applicant receives written professional feedback, which evaluates the functions of the green area using a set of criteria containing 27 points. The criteria establish general standards for high-quality green areas, which can be used to justify and develop the funding required by the areas and to attract more users to green areas, for example.

Explore the Perhospuisto Park

Check out Perhospuisto's online poetry trail

Get to know all the winners on the Green Flag Award Finland website.

International Green Flag Award websites